/0

1810 readers

195 users here now

Meta community. Discuss about this lemmy instance or lemmy in general.

Service Uptime view

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What do we call ourselves? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

54 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Recently I wanted to refer to the general populace of the divisions by zero, but it occurred to me we don't have a good shorthand for it,. I.e. like one talks about "lemmings" or "redditors". We could use something for members of lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Ideas?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

A division by zero is incalculable. On computers, this is sometimes represented by a special value NaN, which stands for "Not a number".

So we could be NaNs? Although a few Anglo countries use Nan to refer to a grandmother.

Another benefit: NaN implies a kind of freedom. To quote from the cult 60's show The Prisoner: "I am not a number, I am a free man"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

... I proposed this as well, and another thing NaN is quite close to is... Naan bread, lol.

Basically a kind of flatbread, usually associated with India, sort of kind of like pita bread.

Its pronounced like... Non, at least the way I pronounce Non, as a PNW dialect English native speaker, not like Nan, as in Nanna, or other similar words to refer to a grandmother, or sometimes mother, different vowel sound.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

that would be so fucking rad